Re: UTF-8 question

I usually use xterm for viewing utf-8. Try the following for example...

LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 xterm -u8 -fn
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 -fw
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1

Tom.

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 15:28, Guentsch, Anton wrote:
> Hello,
> I have implemented a java application which extracts information from an iso-8859-1 encoded XML file using the JDOM parser and feeds it into a postgresql database. Everything is running on linux. I am using Postgres 7.1.3 and jdbc7.0-1.1. Now I would like to do the same thing with UTF-8 encoded XML files.
> Since I have no experience with unicode and utf-8 I would like to know whether I have to expect difficulties at the JDBC and Postgres side of the thing (my Postgres database is already configured for unicode).
> I would also like to know a simple way to feed some unicode characters into a Postgres database, get them out again, and display them on the screen just for testing purposes. I tried it with pgaccess but it doesn't seem to be unicode enabled.
> Many thanks for your help.
> Anton
>
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